Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Itanium is dead, long live the Itanium
Woodcrest sucks in 64 bit environment. After these reports:
According to the internal document from the manufacturers (Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 VS AMD Athlon 64 FX 62 & Intel Pentium XE 965), Pentium XE 965 could perform 5-10% (2-3% for Athlon 64 FX 62) better in 64-bit, Core 2 however was found no obvious boost.
Oh, boy ! Woodcrest is completely squeezed out at 32 bit. No juice left for 64 bit environment. Oh, those nasty, unfriendly Frenchs.
What to say in the end? Just say no to Woodcrest. But, if you like Intel there is however a backup solution:
Itanium IA64 is dead, long live the Itanium LXIV.
And all Intel's suckers should be satisified. That is why Woodcrest has been tested until now by "confident" labs and only under super restricted test conditions. In a goal not to be revealed Woodcrest's 64bit weakness.
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